Can Windows10 text search find text inside a .XAR document?

[handrawn]

wix is an export format - it's there in my xdpx15.1 - afaik it's always been there

reading the preview bitmap does not, afaik, require the whole xar to be uncompressed, it is a specific function that integrates with the window OS

maybe it is possible for xara to write a plugin, but that is not to say it there would be money in it for them...

[handrawn]

capellan - your link is broken....

[Acorn]

Al, WIX is Xara's internal unpacked format. All Pro versions can export WIX.
Text exists in Links, Alt Text, Layers, Pages, etc, and Text Objects including Text Inside & Placeholders. Gaining a coherent understanding of these is difficult.
I have tried.

Acorn

@handrawn - strip off the duplicate protocol.

[handrawn]

yes I got there eventually, thanks

along the way I got to https.com, which was confusing

[capellan]

Al, WIX is Xara's internal unpacked format. All Pro versions can export WIX.
Text exists in Links, Alt Text, Layers, Pages, etc, and Text Objects including Text Inside & Placeholders. Gaining a coherent understanding of these is difficult.
I have tried.

Acorn

Hi Acorn,

Did you try to export and reopen wix files from
every version that you have installed?

In my computer, only Xara X1 could export and read
wix files. All other versions only read, but do not export.

I have two more Xara versions that are not installed.
Let me try with these versions too.

By the way Acorn, Do you know if anyone have tried to create Xara files
using scripting programming languages, like python or javascript?

Al

[handrawn]

I fixed your link, I think

http://site.xara.com/support/docs/we...atDocument.pdf

[capellan]

Many thanks!

[Acorn]

Al, I have looked at all my XDAs and each has a .wix Import and Export.
As Xara uses this format for testing (probably), it is what I expected.

  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro+\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 39:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 104:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\17\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 39:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 104:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files (x86)\Xara\Xara Photo Graphic Designer 10\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X10\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X11\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\12\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\15\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Designer Pro X\16\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 39:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 102:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer 10 Premium\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer 11 Premium\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer Premium\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
  C:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Web Designer Premium\15\FileFormats.xml (2 hits)
    Line 38:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>
    Line 101:     <Format Id="205" Name="Xara (*.wix)"/>

I have a large site in German that unpacks into 15MB as a WIX.
I searched for "angegangen" ['approached'] from the open design file in the phrase "und tiefgründig angegangen um das Beste von " in a text editor and found a WIX line:

{2201,246,WCS("und altersbedigten Ver"),W(228),WCS("nderungen die ver"),W(228),WCS("nderte "),W(228),WCS("usserliche "),W(196),WCS("sthetik kunstvoll und tiefgr"),W(252),WCS("ndig angegangen um das Beste von "),WCS(" von")}

What is clear is the fragmentation and the lack of context, which would require a lot of back-tracking to determine where and what in the design the WIX code referred to.
You would then need a click-link to open the XDA with that WIX in the right place.

Clearly, just bite the bullet and export as PDF and use that or as a Vertical Supersite Export and the browser's Find function.

By the way Acorn, Do you know if anyone have tried to create Xara files
using scripting programming languages, like python or javascript?

No, I have been waiting for the always-promised/never-delivered API for SmartShapes before looking at the possibilities.

On my Acorn Archimedes, I have a program in BBC Basic that allows coding to generate AFF and DRW files that can be imported into an XDA.
It is probably easier to address such things now as SVGs.

Acorn